Mike Edelhart – Managing Partner At Social Starts – Vc Bringing A Data-Driven Approach To Investing In Startups

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Self-described geek and tech revolution pioneer, Mike Edelhart, has enjoyed a rich career taking him from prestigious positions including Executive Editor of PC Magazine and later Executive President at Ziff. Edelhart is now at the helm with Founder and partner, Bill Lohse, as the Managing Partner of Social Starts, a largely successful venture capital company with a data-driven approach to moment-of-inception investing.
Edelhart and Lohse knew this generation of tech was going to be bigger than the first two revolutions – PC and the internet, that they had been actively a part of. So what do you do when you have two of the sharpest minds in the industry with loads of experience? You create a VC organization to benefit the masses.
Social Starts is a unique VC with the goal to be the first professional investor an entrepreneur allows into their project. In order to do that they want to literally be on the ground wherever they believe solid startups are likely to pop up; meaning both physical location as well as in specific industries such as medical, technology, etc.
As one of the most active first stage investors, Social Start generally starts with a list of approximately 4000 attractive startups at the beginning of any given year. Over the next few months, they may meet with half of those on the initial list and eventually boil it down to investing in approximately one new company per week; at least this has been the trend for the past five years. Social Start gives credit for this success to their unique scientific approach to early-stage investing driven by data and research. The idea is to track and make educated assessments of what, who, where and when these startups are going to boom.
For more information visit www.socialstarts.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.8	Future technologies, ways to transform our lives for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.4	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used, or just around the corner.
0:19.5	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:21.9	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:32.4	Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th, and 16th, 2018, the Blockchain and Future Tech Expo.
0:40.7	This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people.
0:44.9	We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications.
0:47.8	We're going to be talking about quantum computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence,
0:52.0	and several other future technologies that are poised to and
0:56.6	actually changing our lives as we speak.
0:59.0	Here's why you should attend.
1:01.0	As you may know, early adopters are the ones that investigated and profited from things like
1:06.0	the gold rush in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet boom in 2005, from the smartphone explosion in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet boom in 2005, from the
1:13.6	smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real estate boom that ended in 2008, and of course,
1:19.6	from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now, they don't wait till later.
1:25.6	They go out west first, and they're covered wagons. They find the biggest gold nuggets.
1:30.3	If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference.
1:37.3	Blockchain is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, how we send money around the world, how we bank, and more.
1:45.9	But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity will play a pivotal role in our lives as well.
1:52.0	And that's why our next event, September 14th to the 16th at the Dallas Convention Center,
1:57.7	is going to have not only 5,000 plus attendees, but will showcase blockchain,
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